Addison High School used its size to create havoc inside and Michigan Center couldn't stop the Panthers in a matchup of unbeaten Cascades Conference boys basketball teams Thursday night. Addison fought off a sluggish start to record a 54-40 win for its fifth straight win and handing the Cardinals their first loss in five games.

"Our guys didn't get down after a slow first quarter and we kept after them and after them, and got hings together in the second quarter for the rest of the game," said Addison coach Andy Kubish. "We didn't let them have many second shots. Gabe Guerra and Tyler Corbin hit a couple shots in the third quarter to get our offense going, and then we started going inside, inside, inside. They hit a couple big shots in the fourth quarter but we hit a lot of little ones."

Seniors Corbin and Luke Meyer combined to go 11-for-13 from the free throw stripe in the fourth quarter to help the Panthers keep Center at bay. Meyer finished with 23 points and 17 rebounds while Corbin added 13 points and six rebounds and Jarrett Flynn dished out five assists. Addison went 23-for-31 from the free throw line as a team.

Dylan Zaborowski hit four 3-pointers and led Michigan Center with 12 points.

The Panthers return to Cascades Conference play on Monday at Grass Lake.

Tecumseh JV: Tecumseh traveled to Chelsea for a junior varsity game and came back with a hard-earned 42-40 victory. Zach Watkins led Tecumseh with 10 points while Garrett Prieur added eight rebounds and five blocked shots.

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Southeastern Conference quad at Tecumseh: The host Indians, ranked No. 7 in Division 2, barely broke a sweat as they recorded a 67-9 win over Chelsea and an even more lopsided 82-0 win over Ann Arbor Huron to improve to 6-0 in the SEC and 17-2 overall.